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Wanted: 30 Knowmads

John Moravec posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 5:07 pm
Remember Knowmads in Society 3.0? Something amazing is brewing in Europe. And, they’re looking for thirty candidates from around the world. Knowmads is a new school for the world of tomorrow, s...
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November agenda: Boundless conversations

John Moravec posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 5:13 pm
The month of November promises to be a remarkable series of boundless conversations on the intersections of creativity, technology and innovation in education. First and foremost, I owe many thanks t...
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Friedman: U.S. education system endangering global competitiveness

John Moravec posted an article on - Oct 21, 2009, 9:41 am
New York times columnist Tom Friedman speaks out: A Washington lawyer friend recently told me about layoffs at his firm. I asked him who was getting axed. He said it was interesting: lawyers who were...
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Kurzweil's Transcendent Man

John Moravec posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 9:24 am
We haven’t had an opportunity to screen Ray Kurzweil’s the film, Transcendent Man, yet, but The Futurist magazine published a preview: Scene: A movie theater on the west side of Manhattan...
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Farewell to the Average American

John Moravec posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 10:15 am
Looking at demographic trends across the United States, Advertising Age came to a conclusion that will be stunning for most people: “The concept of an ‘average American’ is gone, pr...
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Education Futures NL coming on November 2

John Moravec posted an article on - Oct 1, 2009, 6:00 am
Practical. Inspirational. Interactive. November 2, 2009 10:00 – 18:00 Creative Learning Lab Pakhuis De Zwijger, Amsterdam Mark your calendars! On November 2, Education Futures NL, a worksh...
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Innovation and education?

John Moravec posted an article on - Sep 27, 2009, 12:43 pm
I posted this simple question on Twitter, and I’m reposting it here, too: Please share your thoughts!
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Creating and dismantling the library of the future

John Moravec posted an article on - Sep 24, 2009, 9:03 am
Inside Higher Ed writes that, Daniel Greenstein, vice provost for academic planning and programs at the University of California System predicts: The university library of the future will be sparsely...
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Is ASU building the New American University?

John Moravec posted an article on - Sep 23, 2009, 8:46 am
This video has been floating around for seven months, and I somehow haven’t seen it until today. Not only does Arizona State University specifically address the growing needs for transdisciplina...
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Knowmads in the Netherlands

John Moravec posted an article on - Sep 15, 2009, 12:15 pm
Education Futures introduced the knowmads concept last November. And, now we just learned that a major Dutch school of youth entrepreneurship, KaosPilots Netherlands, has decided to rebrand themselves...
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Uruguay reacts to Plan Ceibal book pre-launch

John Moravec posted an article on - Sep 10, 2009, 12:09 pm
Roberto Balaguer notes that a book we are collaborating on has captured the attention of the president of Uruguay: The website of the Presidency of the Republic Book Fair, we held the pre-presentatio...
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Summer in review: Part 2

John Moravec posted an article on - Sep 4, 2009, 10:35 am
We continue our reflection on this summer’s news with a brief note on two items that look into how technology impacts student and teachers’ thinking. Education Innovation compiled some th...
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Can technology fix schools?

John Moravec posted an article on - Aug 25, 2009, 3:54 pm
Henry Jenkins thinks so. Watch his interview with PBS’s Frontline: More at PBS’s digital_nation site… (Thanks to Cristóbal Cobo for the link.)
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Summer in review: Part 1

John Moravec posted an article on - Aug 24, 2009, 9:12 am
We return from our reduced summer publication schedule — this week, we will focus on some highlights of what others talked about while we were away. Today, we start with a look at higher educat...
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Engaging global youth through innovation design challenges

John Moravec posted an article on - Jul 20, 2009, 12:30 pm
Note: Education Futures is on a reduced publication schedule for the summer, and will return with its regular schedule in mid-August. Slides from Saturday’s talk at World Future Society’s...
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Arthur Benjamin: Drop calculus, mainstream statistics

John Moravec posted an article on - Jun 29, 2009, 9:53 am
A short video with a compelling argument from TED: Someone always asks the math teacher, “Am I going to use calculus in real life?” And for most of us, says Arthur Benjamin, the answer is...
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